ReSeT #8 Amstrad CPC meeting

The next edition of the ReSeT meeting is on the way, organized as usual by Eliot.

There will be 4 compétitions :

• demo : runnable on CPC6128 or 6128 Plus, without any extension
• 256 bytes, 1 or 4 Ko intro : runnable on CPC6128 or 6128 Plus, without any extension.
• graphics : all formats/modes are allowed. The entry must be submitted with its viewer program runnable on CPC or Plus
• music : any executable music on CPC or Plus. The entry must be submitted with its player. No size limit

The ReSeT Party will take place from Friday 22th (10:00) to Sunday 24th of June 2012 (18:00) at Foyer des Jeunes Travailleurs in Coutances (162 rue Régis Messac). The price is 10 euros per day for the entrance, drinks and food. You can book a double room at the party place for 20 euros per night.

Go to the web site for more informations

Source : CPCWiki's forum

Category : meeting

a music remake of Saboteur II by Alpiso

Alpiso strikes again ! A new musical remake is available on youtube : Saboteur II.

Category : music

Prohibition remake as Java-applet

Devilmarkus is working on a Prohibition remake in Java.

Source : CPCWiki's forum

Category : game

ManageDsk v0.20g by Demoniak

ManageDSK v0.20g by Ludovic Deplanque is out. Its interface is available in english, french and spanish. It features :

• create an empty .DSK file,
• add files in a .DSK file,
• extract files from an .DSK file,
• rename files in a .DSK file
• delete files in a .DSK file,

Source : CPCRulez's forum

Category : utility

Teaser video of R-type

a new teaser video is available on the Easter egg's R-type remake site, also news musics and background pictures.

Category : game

How to write a double side DSK for use on an Amstrad CPC

To write a single DSK image file you can either use :

• ManageDSK by Demoniak (windows)
• iDSK by Sid (it's an unix/macos port of ManageDsk, it seems that you will need the dsktools by Andreas Micklei)
• WriteDSK by Targhan (on Amstrad CPC only)
• CPCDiskXP by Mochilote (windows)

Beware, WriteDSK works on the CPC (you must have a PC 3,5" with the .DSK which will be copied on the same 3,5" drive or another 3" drive). It supports the CPC Booster by Antitec.

But if you want to write a double sided DSK, you will have to use CPCDiskXP by Mochilote for the moment.

P.S. : from the WriteDSK documentation, it should support double side DSK.

Source : CPC Wiki's forum

Category : utility

Moon Base III by Barrie M. Eaton, now on Android

In 1991, Barrie M. Eaton wrote an adventure game Moon Base III.

21 years later, his son couldnt find an adventure game on Android, so he ported this game, using Android features (speech synthesis for example). Moon Base III is available as a demo version (20% of the game), or in full version for 1,60 € on the Android market.

Source : CPC Wiki's forum

Category : game

Citadelle v1.1 on Amstrad CPC and ... Exelvision EXL100

In 2005 Tom et Jerry did port a Loriciels adventure game written on Philips VG5000 and Oric Atmos : Citadelle.

In 2011 he purchased a rare french computer the Exelvision EXL100. So he ported once again this game on this "new" computer, and backported enhancements to the Amstrad version Citadelle v1.1 in October 2011.

Sorry but the game is in french only.

Source : Tom et Jerry

Category : game

Bubble Bobble remake (BB4CPC) by César Nicolas Gonzales

In 1986 Taito released the arcade game Bubble Bobble featuring the twin Bubble Dragons Bub and Bob. It was converted in 1987 on Amstrad CPC by Software Creations and distributed by Firebird. Alas this Amstrad CPC version had no music, nice sprites (or not), sound effects (my ears are still bleeding).

That's why César Nicolas Gonzales (author of the CPCE Amstrad CPC emulator) started a faithful remake of the arcade version which could work on an Amstrad CPC 464 (only 64 Ko) : BB4CPC. So this remake uses the full 16 colors of the Amstrad palette, music, nice sound effects, enhanced sprites, all the original levels and final boss. It was released a few days ago just after christmas 2011. Tom et Jerry did some work on the music.

Category : game

Countdown to R-Type remake

It's 18h06, you will have to wait still 2.332.400 seconds to be able to enjoy Easter Egg's new program : the R-Type remake for Amstrad CPC in colors !

This remake is done by Fano (code), TotO (graphics) et iXien(sound). You can read Fano's interview on Push'N'Pop.

So it's still 38.873 minutes, that's 647 hours or 27 days to wait... To help you in meantime, you can go on the R-Type remake's site to find screenshots, musics, the cover, the manual, and for course the preview video of the game on Youtube.

By the way, R-Type was cited on Boing Boing.

Source : CPCRulez's forum

Category : game

Phactory v2.2 is out

Phactory v2.2 by NoRecess is available.

This new version of this development environment targetting Amstrad CPC adds a new user interface, overall speed improvements thanks to a new plugin system, a new source code editor featuring Z80 assembly syntax highlighting and some minor bugs fixed.

At the moment there is no documentation, no examples, no templates and no support.

Category : development

GameBase CPC v23

GameBase CPC v23 is available since the 19th December.

Category : game

Happy new year 2012

Happy new year 2012, I wish you a good health too and also to all you love.

Category : web site